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Jim Holder

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Genesis dealers are agents, rather than traditional retailers

SOMETIMES A BUZZWORD is so ubiquitous that it’s easy to assume its subject will succeed, and today ‘agency model’ is one such example.

Referring to the transition from retailers handling car sales to car makers doing so – paying retailers a handling fee rather than commission – it is, in its most boiled-down form, driven by car makers chasing greater profits.

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